New DPS Skis & Products with Stephan Drake (Ep.22)

We talk with DPS Skis founder, Stephan Drake, about DPS Dreamtime; the new DPS Wailer 110; the DPS Spoon, Lotus 138, and 124; and some very big news about DPS Phantom, the ski and snowboard base treatment that DPS introduced this past season.

Related:

Stephan’s background and the history of DPS: Episode #38 of the Blister Podcast

Conversation with Stephan on the introduction of Phantom: Episode #59 of the Blister Podcast

I really want to be sold on Phantom Wax, and I feel like most likely this will be the season I go ahead and give it a try. The only question that keeps floating in my mind is that if DPS is so confident in the product, why don’t they put it on every new ski they make?

Lot of reasons probably but the most obvious one to me is that it’s much better business selling Phantom to early adopters than using a high share of the probably limited production capability for DPS skis only. With time this should change, though.